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Basket Weave neck warmer or toddler poncho

This is my basket weave neck warmer or can be used as a toddler poncho.

I used the red knifty knitter which is the circular loom. I cast on 20 pegs and knit as a flat

panel with a garter stitch

fashion of one row knit and one row purl until I reached 7 rows in length. After that , I divided my 20 pegs into 4 pegs each. the first 4 pegs I knit and the next 4 I purled and the next 4 I knit and the next 4 I purls and the last roe I knit. I repeated this coming back making sure where I knit I knit and where I purled I purled. I repeated this for 8 rows in length. Then I did the opposite of the first 8 rows. Where I knit I purled and where I purled I knit for up to 8 rows in length. I did this until I reached my desired neck wrap length. At this point I kept the 20 pegs divided into 4 where I treated and worked each group of 4 pegs in a knit stitch as a flat panel about 20 rows in length.

After that I bind off all 5 groups of 4 pegs from the loom. I then weaved by hand the small flat panels as a basket weave one row over and under the other. I then took my ends and placed them back on the loom so the weave would stay in place. I continued in a garter stitch fashion for about 7-8 rows and then bind off in a crochet bind off. I added a collar by crocheting around and voila a neck warmer was born.

"Eat My shorts" - Bart Simpson

I have to write out what I feel or I will lose it soon. I am really angry at the fact that my life just took a nose dive into shit. I have to let my emotions out sorry. Those of you that know I was laid off with 900 others at the Big Telecommunications Company Rogers. I am so Angry that it changed my entire life. I was planning to become pregnant again in January. I can't get pregnant on my own and needed to do fertility treatments which cost money. I can't go to Cuba with my family and enjoy a vacation that I waited 6 years for. So with this job loss my priorities have changed. I have to watch what I spend and we can't do the things that we always did.

Yes I got a new job, but it is starting back at the bottom and working my way up again. I lose my 3 week vacation, salary and my monday to Friday shifts. My husband looks at me in a funny way saying that I am being selfish and that I should be lucky to have found a new job so fast. I am lucky don't get me wrong. But when will I live a calm secure life and not worry anymore?That's what I hate the most. I want to feel selfish now because I never in 35 years had the chance to feel selfish. Now is my time to sulk.